North Carolina consumers who buy their own health insurance through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace may notice some changes to the plans BCBSNC is offering for 2017. One critical factor when choosing a health plan is which doctors and hospitals are in the...

Rising health care costs mean that health insurance premiums will be higher for next year’s Affordable Care Act plans. But there’s something you can do about rising premiums: Check the federal marketplace to see if you qualify for a federal subsidy to help you pay for...

Of all the things driving medical costs higher, none gets attention quite like specialty drugs. With prices increasing to the tune of 17 percent to 31 percent a year, it’s not a surprise that these drugs are under intense scrutiny. Specialty drugs – those that...

Blue Cross CEO Brad Wilson has a prescription for making the Affordable Care Act sustainable. He shared his thoughts on putting “affordable” in the ACA in this opinion piece in The News & Observer of Raleigh. “Simply put, the ACA is not...

There was a time when generic drugs were the tried-and-true way to save money on prescriptions. While that’s still true in the vast majority of cases, some notable exceptions mean that it’s time to revisit the age-old advice to always ask for generics....